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Show 1 AIRMEN WILL FLY OVER SIERRAS, I CROSSING WHERE IDE ILL-FATED I. CONNER PARTY PERISHED The Lhree airplanes, which to fly If., from Mather Field in Calitorhla to 1 Ogden for the Golden Spike elebr.t- I ' ' tion will start on their journev Wed- 1 nesday, vlth a routine -end-off from i (t0 i Ltisens of Si 1 rami nto ; The three men who Will make this I historic flight will be Lieutenant J. M. 1 I Fetters, in the hug. Dfl H;iilncl. and Lieutenant T. S Curtis and William jit; Beck m two Curtiss planes. ! The journey of th- planes will be vatched all along the route and Asso-" Asso-" iated Press messages will be sent 1 i broadcast over th United States and : Canada, as this flight is one that has I 1 not been aceompUh'l befon No flifiht over the Sierras b the j route to be taken by these planes has 111 heen attempted since the failure of Aviator Fowler, who sought to fly from San Francisco to Reno in 1910. end- ing at Emigrant Gap. where the c!e- Ifl. ration U around 5 1 feel If Aviator Fowler started well on his I I Mi journey, landing a Uie state fair s round's in Saeramento on ibo first leg of his flight His attempted flight ' was watched with as much Intert st an U I ihe proposed irans Atlantic flights . 1 , now planned by U S aviators, and . ; svery attempt that he made to con '! ' j liter the altitude with one of the (inest I PH'i wr. I machines th-n made was gossiped far and near. Such advancement has been nade in I the construction of planes and the knowledge of flying since that time that the three army ayiatora who are about to start on .1 historic iourn-' do not even consider the possibility of failure to negotiate the summit of the Sierra Nevada mountains, the sum-nut sum-nut of which Is 15 miles west of the little town of Truckee. California, and about 50 miles from Reno. It i? more than likely that tlie planes will follow the line of the Southern Pacific snow sheds through the mountains, sailing over Donner! 1 akc after erossing the summit and f ining off the big bend from o'd Tun nel Thirteen, which skirts the historic ground where in the winter of 1S4C7 the Donner party was almost destroyed by starvation. Only a few members of the party were finally rescued by deneral Sutler, who s nt Indians and Fcouts out from his fort at Sacra- memo. The few BUrVlTOPS were obliged to eat human flesh from the bodies of their eonirades who per ished. And tills party, before reach ing the fatat camping ground, where the heavy snow caught them at the very foot of the mountain Whicb I makes the summit of the majeslie I range, passed through Ihn '-tato of Utah on the way across the continent. Over Donner Lake As the flyers pas over Donner lake tomorrow they will see off to the right below them the great white cros. thai marks the place where the Don ner party made their winter camp and were engulfed in snows that fell to q depth of between twenty and thirtv feet. But they will not hesitate over the scne. They will be making more his-forv his-forv and will be in a hurry to accomplish accom-plish it. The) will be only a Ht'ie more I than a hall-hour from Reno, as airplanes air-planes fly. and they will hurry on-ward on-ward to the metropolis of the Sierras. a citv of about 12,000 inhabitants. On the way they will drop literature to stimulate interest in the Victory) loan, which is causing official some concern because of the slowness with which bonds are being bought The planes will also drop some literature In ihe cities nn the wa, urging voung nu n of blood to enlist in tint branch j of the service. And besides, each citv will print big headlines and wonderful stories ol the flight of ihe machines on their way to the historic event in Ogden The newspapers will tell much of ill-driving ill-driving of the Golden Spike on Maj 10, isi)9, and what It now means to Oj;den When the machines arrive here they will laud in the old race traek near the Hot Springs and will bo greeted by a committee composed of representatives represen-tatives of the press, the mayor and members of the executive anil entei tainmcnt committee They will be escorted to Ogden for a formal reception recep-tion prior to doing their flying siunts They Will return to the landing plan-, nine up and sail up into the azutfi blue and over Ogden City, doing some tricks for the pleasure of the crowd. Ogden will have many thousands of visitors here at the end of th week, as many will begin to arrive perhaps bv Thursday. It is anticipated th.v the housing and feeding capacity of I the citv will be taxed even bv FTidaj night, as on that evening one of the finest parts of the program, the Ing 1 ing of the great Salt Lake choir, will itake place in the Tabernacle, preceded preced-ed by the community singing in Lestei ; park. 00 |